Awards & Nominations
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Global Nominee
James Weeb’s Showcase
High-Level Project Summary
My solution addresses the Learning Through the Looking Glass challenge. The inspiration came from an initiative to make knowledge about Space Science, which is most often seen as something restricted to space scientists, into something accessible and in an easy-to-understand language.James Weeb's Showcase is an app that aims to demonstrate in a more accessible and playful way the purposes of the telescope. Questions like: what is it? What he does? How did he get there? Among many other questions are being answered and learned by players as they interact with the screen/app. The convenience is in the way it [the game] is being presented and the accessibility it brings to students.
Link to Final Project
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Detailed Project Description
My solution addresses the Learning Through the Looking Glass challenge. The inspiration came from an initiative to make knowledge about Space Science, which is most often seen as something restricted to space scientists, into something accessible and in an easy-to-understand language.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest space telescope ever built and aims to solve riddles of our solar system. Thus, making use of scientific information with the use of an interactive-informative game instigates the critical sense of school-age young people and provides their insertion in the scientific environment.
James Weeb's Showcase is an app that aims to demonstrate in a more accessible and playful way the purposes of the telescope. Questions like: what is it? What he does? How did he get there? Among many other questions are being answered and learned by players as they interact with the screen/app. The convenience is in the way it [the game] is being presented and the accessibility it brings to students. It can also arouse more curiosity in players and direct them to the area of science.
It works as follows: one wanted with false or true questions, and each answer has an explanatory text with illustrative images or gifs.
It will change players' views on how NASA shares its knowledge and discoveries about the universe and, in so doing, can make an ordinary citizen learn about a subject that was beyond their everyday knowledge.
James Webb-World Ranking System-Thinking about our target audience, we innovate the gaming experience to combine the useful with the pleasant. The presented game has three skill levels, Master, Dragon and Infinite. Another very important detail is that it has the function of being something educational, so our system will update in real time the player with the highest score in each level, and the school he studies. The System intends to explore all the data obtained by James Webb, going from creation to the results he is generating. How can it be useful? It can be used for future mathematical, physical, chemical calculations or even in biology, to understand the atmosphere, the mass and the living beings. Our pilot game and the starting level.
Space Agency Data
we used images captured by the James webb telescope, made available by nasa, and websites that tracked the telescope's trajectory and provided information about it.
Hackathon Journey
our experience has been very cool because it allowed new learning with friends, as well as learning from local leader and sharing experience.
References
NASA. Telescópio Espacial James Webb. Disponível em: https://webb.nasa.gov/content/multimedia/images.html.
NORTHROP GRUMMA. James Webb Space Telescope Launch and Deployment. Disponível em: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ihVeEoUdo.
CAVALCANTE, D. James Webb | O que cientistas esperam descobrir com o novo telescópio espacial. CanalTech. Disponível em: https://canaltech.com.br/espaco/james-webb-o-que-cientistas-esperam-descobrir-com-o-novo-telescopio-espacial-152339/.
James Webb Space Telescope. What Makes Lagrange Points Special Locations In Space. Disponível em: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cUe4oMk69E.
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#Amazonia #tefé #X-force #Education #JWST #Gaming